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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13734

    Pet crow Nikon

    Date
    1969
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Close up of the head and beak of pet crow Nikon, taken from a low vantage looking up. One of two crows kept by the Oxford Animal Behavioural Research Group.

    One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Saffer for the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group, probably taken on Walney Island, Cumbria, England.

    Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976.
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